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Top 10 E's to Motivate and Influence an Audience
by Sandra Schrift
Published on this site: August 24th, 2005 - See
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Speak with E's. Be a speaker of influence not control or guilt.
With the privilege of the platform comes the awesome responsibility
of motivating and influencing your audience to feel/think/act
differently.
- Educate provide your audience with extensive information
on your topic. This will empower attendees to feel competent
and knowledgeable. Support your points with stories. Stories
help us see through the eyes of other people. Adults delineate
their thoughts visually.
- Entertain give them the facts laced with a good dose of
humor. Adults learn better when they are lightening up!
Here's the place for some magic tricks, handwriting analysis
or a song.
- Experience get the audience involved. When they interact,
they get it better and retain it longer. Group exercises,
simple questions and answers, role-plays.
- Enthusiasm vary your tone of voice, smile often, and show
passion for your subject matter. Make your body language
reflect your comments.
- Example be the speaker/person who motivates the audience
to admire and respect you. You have succeeded when people
say, I want to be like him/her.
- Encourage be supportive to your audience believe in them.
Acknowledge them Say, I did it and so can you
- Excellence hold yourself accountable for excellence. And
then help your audience be accountable and live up to its
potential. Speakers need to give audiences what they need,
not what they want.
- Expertise demonstrate that you know your stuff. Speak
about what you know from your business background, personal
experiences and research. Be perceived as an expert on your
topic.
- Eloquence deliver your speech with high energy, sincerity,
inspiration, and a sense of humor. Are you one of a kind?
What makes you different from your competitors?
- End result you want to energize your audience to take
some risks, some action, go to the edge and execute make
their dreams come true, or get the job done. Your information
should be useful and immediately applicable to their lives.
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Sandra Schrift 13 year speaker bureau owner and now
coach speakers to get clients and paid speaking engagements.
I also work with business professionals and organizations
who want to deliver masterful presentations. To find out How
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